Never took anatomy

[SugarNaCl]

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Did anyone else never take an anatomy course? Even as a bio major, SUNY Buffalo didn't require one. Now I regret not taking it as an elective. Most I have had was the anatomy in my neuroscience class in grad school.

 

[Ething]

I have never taken anatomy.

 

[sadipagla]

Me neither.

 

[DDSY]

I don't think most people take anatomy. If they do, the breadth and depth of the coverage is very little compared to the course(s) you will take at dental school.

 

[lifeisgood]

Me neither. Taking it next semester.

 

[syn_apse]

undergraduate anatomy is not going to help you at all

 

[armorshell]

undergraduate anatomy is not going to help you at all

Sure it will! I mean, it certainly won't hurt...

 

[Snahster]

I have to disagree with the undergraduate anatomy not helping comment. That is a freaken lie...sort of. It depends on the course. If you're anatomy class consists of a lecture and that's it then I would say it won't help you that much but if you have a lab where you are actually dissecting cadavers then it's is going to help you SO much. I have talked to many a dental student who say anatomy in undergrad made the dental anatomy much easier and that there are people in their class who haven't taken anatomy and are struggling. One guy didn't even know what a clavicle was... how sad.

 

[Old School]

Did anyone else never take an anatomy course? Even as a bio major, SUNY Buffalo didn't require one. Now I regret not taking it as an elective. Most I have had was the anatomy in my neuroscience class in grad school.

I took two anatomy courses, gross human anatomy and histology. But a lot of people will have never had it before dental school. don't sweat it. It's just a lot of memorization.

The toughest part will likely be differentiating the nerves from the arteries and veins in the cadaver. It's not like high school and undergrad where everything is injected with a nice colored solution so you can tell them apart. You'll need to know that nerve a is dorsal to artery b, and medial to vein c.

 

[wizziefiend]

The toughest part will likely be differentiating the nerves from the arteries and veins in the cadaver. It's not like high school and undergrad where everything is injected with a nice colored solution so you can tell them apart. You'll need to know that nerve a is dorsal to artery b, and medial to vein c.

So youre not even testing on your own cadaver, correct? They ever throw at you a cadaver with strange features where things aren't where they're supposed to be?

Another thing, how many terms would you say do you get tested on at a time? Are they divided, say "today is upper extremities"? or is it whole body all at once?

 

[syn_apse]

I have to disagree with the undergraduate anatomy not helping comment. That is a freaken lie...sort of.

i stand by my statement and anybody who has taken both understands why. undergradute anatomy rarely includes dissection of a human cadaver and the breadth and depth is laughable compared to what you will be expected to know in dental school. of course, if you don't know what a clavicle is, then by all means sign up for anatomy asap!

if you want to take a course that will help you in dental school, then take biochem or histology 👍

 

[I'mFillingFine]

So youre not even testing on your own cadaver, correct? They ever throw at you a cadaver with strange features where things aren't where they're supposed to be?

Another thing, how many terms would you say do you get tested on at a time? Are they divided, say "today is upper extremities"? or is it whole body all at once?

To answer the above, it's VERY important that you learn everything on your own cadaver, and then never look at it again. Try to see every single body that's being dissected (even at the med student tables), because you'll see that no body is alike, and they pull bodies at random to be pinned for the exam. At UB they were good about pinning clear structures (most of the time 🙄 ) but you'll be surprised at how you have to learn everything over again once you look at a new cadaver, and you have to know what you see instantly for the exam. (hence the stress )

#2: it depends on the school, but we had three blocks: back, shoulder, arms, some of neck was one, then thorax and abdomen, and finally head and neck. And how many terms? For the first exam we had to know around 80 muscles, their origins and insertions, innervation, and action. For the other two it was just a huge amount of blood vessels, some muscles, LOTS of nerves, embryology, and connections among all of those. There's a lot of info.

I just finished gross, so I'm a tad bitter 😀


To the OP, most schools don't require it for the same reason only basic prereqs are actually required. You'll learn it all in school anyway. However, I think anatomy would have helped me, since gross ended up being my class from hell. However, EVERYONE has his/her class from hell...it's whatever you never got in high school/college, a topic you just find boring, or just you not merging with that professor's teaching style. Think of it this way: if you took gross but gave up a chance at histo, then maybe histo would be your killer in dental school. You never know.

I'd always recommend taking as many dental school courses as you can since it only makes your life easier, but there will still definitely be things you're learning for the first time.

 

[tooth decay]

Did anyone else never take an anatomy course? Even as a bio major, SUNY Buffalo didn't require one. Now I regret not taking it as an elective. Most I have had was the anatomy in my neuroscience class in grad school.

Part of most school's first year curriculum includes gross anatomy. This is such an important subject that they want to make sure you know the head and neck structures very well.

 

[pre-dentalguy]

SugarNaCl,

Gross Anatomy and histology will definitely help you as you enter into d school. Courses such as these will lay a basic foundation during your first and second year. Histology and Anatomy are both in the curriculum for D1 and D2 students. This will definitely help!!

 

[lemoncurry]

I just finished an upper division undergrad anatomy class, and it was pretty intense. Plus we got to dissect cadavers. I don't see how it couldn't help me when I get to d-school.

 

[toofache32]

My college degree was in classical guitar performance. I barely had the prereqs for dental school. And I still graduated in the top 10% of my class and got the residency of my choice.

They will tell you everything you need to know when you get to dental school. Don't be hell-bent on majoring in the same thing twice.